William Herle

William Herle (died April 1718) was the captain of the British Royal Navy man o' war HMS Princess of London during the Golden Age of Piracy. In April 1718, the ship was assaulted by Blackbeard's ship Queen Anne's Revenge off Mariguana Island as it returned to the Caribbean Sea from Charles-Towne, South Carolina, and Blackbeard and Edward Kenway succeeded in boarding the ship after it put up a good fight. Kenway mortally wounded Herle, who told Blackbeard and Kenway that they would be hanged and "sun-dried" like the pirates in Boston.